Meet the new backup goalie

Want to know how Anders Lindback found out the Nashville Predators chose him as the team’s backup goalie? His father, who had seen the news that Mark Dekanich was sent to Milwaukee, called him from Sweden.

It was sort of a bittersweet phone call, as Lindback was clearly elated that he had most likely made an NHL roster, but sad to see fellow netminder Dekanich sent to Milwaukee.

“I know they are expecting me to play well every day,” Lindback said. “I always do that to myself, but there is more pressure now. I just work hard and do my best every day.”

The question is whether playing as a backup in Nashville would prove beneficial for his development rather than playing every day in Milwaukee. Lindback thinks so.

“This is the best league,” Lindback said. “I will see goalies every day and I will have time to study them more; what they do all the time and watch one of the best goalies in the league here every day.”

Lindback has clearly impressed the team’s brass with his stellar play. And at 6-foot-6, he is considered clone of Nashville starter Pekka Rinne.

And the similarities don’t end there as both are from Scandinavia. Rinne is from Finland.

So let’s think of some nicknames. The Twin Towers is overused and bland. How about the Scandinavian Connection? I was thinking of the Double Fjords until I read that fjords are not common in Finland.